Emotions in Social Life

by Bendelow,Gillian

• ISBN13: 9780415137997
• ISBN10: 0415137993
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-12-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The development of a sociology of emotions is crucial to our understanding of social life. Emotions are "social things"--controlled and managed in our everyday lives. Why is it then, that in Western social thought, emotions are disdainfully regarded as irrational and very often linked to a "hysterical" female? Emotions in Social Lifeinvestigates how in the course of human history, this "rational" development of the separation of reason and feeling came into being, and how its institution was male-identified. In providing this comprehensive assessment of the sociology of emotions, this volume pushes forward the boundaries of sociological investigation, allowing for a better understanding of the social process. The international roster of scholars come from the fields of medical sociology, health psychology and gender studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Emotions in Social Life: Mapping the Sociological Terrain

Critical Perspectives on Emotions

The Sociology of Emotion as a Way of Seeing

Emotion and Communicative Action: Habermas, Linguistic Philosophy and Existentialism

The Limitations of Cultural Constructionism in the Study of Emotion

The Sociogenesis of Emotion: an Historical Sociology?

The Mediation of Emotional Experience

Bored and Blase: Television, the Emotions and Georg Simmel

In Search of the Inner Child: Co-Dependence and Gender in a Cyberspace Community

Emotions, Cyberspace and the 'Virtual' Body: a Critical Appraisal

Emotions and the Body through the Life Course

Children, Emotion and Daily Life through the Life Course

'Shorties, Low-Lifers, Hardnuts and Kings':Boys and the transformation of emotions in school

Ageing and Emotion

Sexuality, Intimacy and Personal Relationships

Masculinity and Emotional Life Rejection, Fear and Intimacy

'Stepford Wives' and 'Hollow Men': doing emotion work, doing gender and 'authenticity' in Intimate Heterosexual Relationships

Changes in the 'Lustbalance' of Sex and Love since the Sexual Revolution: the Example of the Netherlands

Emotions and Health

Pain, Emotions and Gender

Social Performances and their Discontents: the Biopsychosocial Aspects of Dramaturgical Stress

'Getting the Job Done': Emotion Management and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Nursing

Emotions in Rationalizing Organizations: Conceptual Notes from Professional Nursing in the US

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